Chapter Eleven

I hurry down the hall and towards the main room, as I was talking with the director she's made me five minutes late, I hate being late. I make it to the main door but before I could open it, Morgan stood in the doorway with his arms crossed. This made me nervous that he found out what me and Toby did last night, but actually how would he know that? "Taylor, did you follow my order last night and get a full nights rest?" He asks me with a stern look, I take a quick look behind him where I spot Toby, who raises his eyebrow giving me a smirk. "Mostly" I reply turning back to look at Morgan, he gives me another look which told me I had to elaborate "it took me awhile to get off, but after a few hours I slept like a log" I say my eyes darting to Toby once again, who sends me wink. Morgan nods turning and walking into the room, finally letting me walk in behind him. Both Lukas and Toby were already in the room with Brandon, who as always was typing away on his laptop but looks up at me. "There you are Taylor, I was getting worried! You're never late" he says worry clear on his face, it's true I'm never here too early but I've never been late either. "I would have been here on time but I was stopped by the director" I explain which does get Morgan's attention and he looks up "she told me the guys have been given clearance and we need to go and collect them" I say coming to a stop just in front of where Toby sat, I feel his hand on my lower back as I did. "That's fast, I assumed it would take a few weeks" Morgan says walking over to his desk, this gave me the opportunity to turn around and give Toby a look, he didn't care and kept his hand where it was "I parked a car at the south end of the alliance, you'll have to jump the fence but that shouldn't be a problem with these two" Morgan says as I whip my head back around to look at him, he walks over handing me the car keys and telling the guys to grab their bags. They leave with Brandon which left me and Morgan alone, thankfully, his mind was too busy thinking about the director that he didn't stop to talk about Toby. I go to my draw pulling my gun out, when you go out of this place you have of carry one of these. Once I close the draw my eyes move to the one beside it, Riley's. "I know this must be hard for you, since you've been here so has Riley. But we can't excuse what he did to you Taylor" Morgan says from behind, maybe he isn't too busy to notice what I'm doing. "I know, that's what the director said" I sigh turning around to look at Morgan, he was stood in front of his desk looking at me "but I know Riley, right now he's gonna be sat wherever he is, regretting the whole thing and feeling so bad" I say looking down at the ground as I went, he's probably overthinking all the little details right now and feeling worse with every second. "Honestly, he should feel bad for what he did, he tried to kill you Taylor" Morgan says trying to make me see in his point of view, but I couldn't help but feel bad for him. "You need to let me see him" I say looking up from the floor, this takes Morgan by complete surprise "I know what you're gonna say but I need to, I need to know that he's alright and to let him know that I forgive him" I say knowing how crazy I sounded, but I can't just leave Riley to think I hate him for what happened. Before Morgan could reply, the guys walk back in bags in hand. Brandon looked so nervous as I think he knew he had to join us, the only thing I was worried about was getting out, the rest I already had a plan. With shaky hands I see Brandon pulling his draw open, his gun was sat there growing literal dust. I send him a reassuring smile before walking over to grab my coat, which again was near where Toby was standing. In no time we were walking out of the main door and down the back corridors, these corridors haven't been used in maybe 20 years, which means there's no cameras. The corridors were dark, dusty and quite literally dirty, you had to watch your step with every step. I was leading the way at the front, Toby was behind me which I could tell he didn't like. Than Lukas was behind him and Brandon was leading up the rear, which I could tell he didn't like either. "Why do you guys have creepy corridors?" Lukas asks as we pass what looked like a hospital room, this place looks like something from my nightmares. "The alliance likes to keep moving and growing, once a building has lost its use they leave it to fall down" Brandon explains while nearly falling on his face, luckily Lukas was able to catch him. After a few minutes, we arrived at the very old door, the little cracks in the door was the only source of light around here. I push the door a little, but as it's so old it starts to fall, towards me. I feel hands grab hold of me and pull me to the side, within seconds the door crashes to the floor making the whole building shake. We stand there frozen in place as the ground rocks from underneath us, Brandon was even holding onto a really old pillar. I turn my head to look at where the door used to be, it was just a gaping big hole, Brandon's right they do just allow these buildings to fall down. "Now that's happened we need to get out of here quick, there's no way that someone didn't hear that huge crash" I say moving away from Toby slightly, but he kept his hand interlocked with mine as I went. I go to the hole in the wall and look both ways, once I was satisfied that no one was there I tell everyone to run. I thought I was quick but Toby, it's like a blur when he runs. He still hadn't released my hand from his, which meant I was literally being dragged along with him, my legs have never gone so fast in my life! In no time at all we arrive at the fence, the fence that was higher than I anticipated. "How are we getting up that? These two can no problem but us!" Brandon exclaims out of breath, I don't think he's ran that much in awhile, but being honest I was also out of breath. "We can help you over" Toby says but I did see a slight flaw in his plan, there was barbwire lining the top of the fence "I'll take my jacket off to put over the wire, but still be careful climbing over, I'll go the other side to catch you while Lukas, can throw you up" he says whilst taking his jacket off, I take a look to Lukas who smiled saying it was fine. Without warning, Toby jumps up taking hold of the top of the fence, just missing the barbwire at the top. He swings his jacket over to cover a section, once it was secure he lefts himself up and over. When he was safely on the other side, he tells us to jump over. I look to Brandon, while he just looked terrified back at me, like I was gonna go first. He gulps down for a second before nodding, Lukas goes up behind him and throws him in the air. He starts flapping in the air like a bird for a second, he eventually takes ahold of the jacket and stays there dangling. You could see how nervous he was with his shaking hands, but he eventually pulls himself up and over, where Toby catches him to break his fall. Once he was safe he lays on the ground, this causes a little laugh to escape my lips but then I remember, it's my turn. I look at Lukas who was sending me a smile, but he doesn't come up behind me to throw me as like he did Brandon. He knells down slightly holding his hands out, in a sort of basket shape. This confused me for a second, why wouldn't he just do it like he did with Brandon? I don't let myself think too much of it as I was actually nervous about being chucked in the air! I place my foot in the basket he made where he begins to count down from three, before he chucks me up, unlike Brandon I didn't flap like a bird or start to panic. I grab hold of Toby's jacket holding myself there, being this high and this close to the deadly wire kind of scared me a little. I put that at the back of my mind while I pulling myself up, this is actually taking a lot more upper body strength than I thought it would. I swing my legs over the top knowing not to put too much pressure on the jacket, yes it was giving me some protection but it could still rip and send the wire into my skin. Once I was somewhat over the fence I take a look down, where I make eye contact with Toby below. "You're gonna catch me right?" I ask knowing he was gonna get catch me, but this fence is gigantic, if I fell I would be seriously hurt. "Of course" he says holding his arms up ready to catch, I nod my head taking a deep breath in before jumping. I fall for a second before I land safely in Toby's arms, I smile looking him in the eyes. As I glance down I spot Brandon laying face down on the floor, he was fine but was thanking the ground under him. I took this as my opportunity to plant a small kiss on Toby's lips, as a thank you for catching me. He sends me a smile before placing me on the ground, my feet and Lukas's hit the ground at the same time. He held Toby's jacket but you could see how ripped it was, it did help us not get cut up by sacrificing itself. Before we all could mourn the lose of his jacket, I spot some men walking into the old building we left. I take hold of Toby's hand and lead then all over to the car that Morgan parked, in no time we were racing away from the alliance and down the road.